Lost Empyrean

Bow down before the rain Bow, knees on the ground, all you men Wait for one last storm And avenging hordes Billions of strangled angels Starve for haloes Sleepwalk on a paper bridge Under a plastic vault Wingless multitudes Swoop down on bottomless wounds Archers in rows Rain fire from skies Armoured shadows Walk in line Seven eyes bleed Crimson floods Seven seals Trumpets blown Raging steeds Locust clouds Blood rain spilled As stars fall down

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

He who eats the world Shall swallow the void He who breaks the mountains Shall choke on dust Sleeping swans on a satin rippling lake Whispering seeds of storm Fading light devouring grace and silhouettes Is the wind I've sown Pillars cracked, fractured doors Hounds uncaged, endless roars Soar from deep open sores Wind has blown on the wheel Spun it round, split the shield Awakened beasts of prey, les chiens de tempêtes The multi-face plague, the mirror threat Now that all the devils are here Who shall hear, who shall come Who shall scatter razor tears Spears and daggers, sharpened thorns As the whirlwind blows my breath away Who shall bow, who shall pray Who shall sow these silver drops So I may reap this cleansing flood

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Wordless shadow-play Aching view Algid Troy - ice made flesh The great void - broken pledge This hallowed strand My beloved land My dreams are but eidolons Asleep in a vale of sand Wait... sunken Basement Ashen Crescent For nothing... messiah Dormant Saviour Torments Crave... brazier, rodent Dreading giants Pyre, frozen Winter, laments Waive and feign... De gel et de cendres Un souffle à pierre fendre Petrifying the sun Snowing all around Burn... flowers, wiltred Ribbons, blackened Wave in her hair Like dying garlands Yearn in vain... Et à bridge abattue Fuir le long de ces rivières Le poison, la cigüe Ce céladon de chair

Mother of all dreams Glints sway in the breeze Comet tails trail ripped sails Ideals pale and frail Columns to spear the dome But streets are paved with mold Head nods in silence As entrails shout behind lowered eyes Chasing cherished shades Building walls and ruins Looking down from barricades The brothers we could have been But we're just lone soldiers Against the world, against the wind I can’t give way to dust And jail ghosts in the womb Too crestfallen, too lost To besiege your wounds So tired of this almost I won't adorn your gloom

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

At first light Flesh was glass Porcelain hands drew Wide open seas of dew Torrents ran free Around cherry-blossom trees But ever after is A promised land in dust A split-second gift This eden that banned us Oh, springs lost Immured blaze, grace injured Hazed empyrean, blurred Time is slumber Cradling ordeal We were sparks and embers The incendiary dreams And we're nothing but matter Gravity and fear Flesh - shattered Seas - anchored Floods - are wells Trees - in jail

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

As above So below Sand is foam Morn as gloam Gleams within Cosmos shine Respond through Stained glass nights Chalice, overflowing This clean state-grail Cleanses and drowns My inmost self Those eyes in the mirror They cannot lie They bring the deepest call A breath of old, a vibrant void A sea of light Under the radiant rising sun You fortress of my heart It's over... It just blows the mind Nothing to leave behind And nowhere else to go Forever and ever It's happening now Here on this road We've sealed the door of bygone age Scorched the earth Erased shores, drained the sea Of tranquility We have tried another kind We have tried a different way Now a passion from the sky is coming Down the ocean's waves Then the sea just turns to fire And the true ones sail away From the city shrouded blind Here there's a flowering Spreading with the wind ...then falling down Falling down... It's flowering Spreading with the wind Falling down Falling down... again Your eyes They cannot lie They bring the deepest call A breath of old They bring a vibrant void A sea of light Under the radiant rising sun It's over, everything's over Everything's over Forever... and ever This power bears me away where there Is no longer any shore This power bears me away where there Is no longer any shore This power bears me away where there Is no longer any shore Wider than the whole sky Brighter than any light

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Mirage, hélianthe Sarracenia Mayflies, serpents Exuvia Feather I float, other I rove Raintrees weep nectar through this lush garden Oleander grove Shut-eye on cain, wolfsbane bliss Venus flytrap home I drift in opium glow Tear off pearls of venom Ride nepenthe flow In those lies of aconite Oblivion, precipice of... Light!

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025